Skip to main content

Home/ Imagination for People/ Group items tagged google

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Philippe Huot

Google Lat Long: Map Maker updates for Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago - 2 views

google-latlong.blogspot.ca/...ates-for-lesotho-oman-and.html

google map maker mapping crowdsourcing

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    Google Map Maker being used in Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago. Video inside.
Philippe Huot

Making critical information more accessible in times of disaster - Google Crisis Response - 2 views

www.google.org/crisisresponse

crisis response mapping google

shared by Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    Google's crisis response and mapping initiative.
Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

techpresident.com/...support-new-open-mapping-tools

Mapping OSM

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
  • ...25 more annotations...
  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
    • Alexandre Enkerli
      Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
Alexandre Enkerli

Exploring Local » Blog Archive » Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage o... - 1 views

blog.telemapics.com/?p=399

Mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Google learned that you cannot take the human out of the equation
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mappers - THE HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY NETWORK - 2 views

crisismappers.net

mapping crisis network crowdsourcing humanitarian

shared by Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    International Network of Crisis Mappers. Blog + Google Group for discussions on crisis mapping.
Alexandre Enkerli

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us | Technology | The Guardian - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...google-apple-digital-mapping

mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • someone's way of getting you to look at the world his or her way
  • Any square mile of the planet can be described in an infinite number of ways
  • Traditionally, the interests reflected in maps have been those of states and their armies
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
  • maps based on mined data come to shape our sense of space
  • Google's and Apple's maps might not just observe our lives, but in some sense come to play a role in directing their course.
Philippe Huot

Library of Crisis Hashtags on Twitter: 2010-present - 0 views

docs.google.com/...ccc

library hashtags crisis mapping social media

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    Library of crisis hashtags made for the benefit of the CrisisMappers community. Initiated by Patrick Meier.
1 - 11 of 11
Showing 20▼ items per page